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The Chicken Sisters Episode 2 (Encore) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: Hi friends, Megan and Wendy Here and in honor of
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Speaker 1: Hallmark airing The Chicken Sisters on Hallmark Channel, we are
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Speaker 1: re airing our original reviews and recaps of these episodes
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Speaker 1: that were originally recorded back in September and October of
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. So enjoy The Chicken Sisters and enjoy
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Speaker 1: these recaps and reviews. This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan. I'm Wendy.
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Speaker 1: I'm a former Homewark hater. Today we're discussing The Chicken
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Speaker 1: Sisters episode two, maybe titled I Walk the Line, streaming
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Speaker 1: exclusively on Hallmark Plus. There is a disparity between what
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Speaker 1: IMDb is calling these episodes and how they are listed
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Speaker 1: on Hallmark Plus. So last week we said episode one
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Speaker 1: was called Family is Family and this episode is I
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Speaker 1: Walk the Line. If you look at Hallmark Plus, episode
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Speaker 1: one was Welcome to Merrinac, y'all, and episode two is
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Speaker 1: We're on the same team, y'all. Wendy, notice that disparity.
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Speaker 1: Are they gonna keep that ye y'all y'all thing? From
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Speaker 1: episode to episode, right? Is this like a like a
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Speaker 1: friend's the one where they situation, you know, they name
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Speaker 1: them and they're like, no, we need something to tie
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Speaker 1: it in. We got to go back to the way
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Speaker 1: home where everything's a song title. What's going to be
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Speaker 1: our thing? Apparently y'all's their thing. Okay, we shall say
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Speaker 1: It does? Yeah? Yeah, sure does. Hey. We have a
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Speaker 1: Facebook group. It's for listeners of the podcast and Hallmark
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Speaker 1: fans in general. It is called Girls Gone Hamewark. As
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Speaker 1: the words are coming out of my mouth, I'm thinking
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Speaker 1: not a lot of people are talking about this show
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Speaker 1: and in our group. No. I do think homework plus
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Speaker 1: is a little bit of a barrier for some people,
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Speaker 1: just based on the response in the group to the
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Speaker 1: additional streaming service. And I think it will be interesting
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Speaker 1: to see and I don't know how much we'll know,
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Speaker 1: but I'm very curious how it's performing based on Homewark's projection,
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Speaker 1: because this is a little bit of an experiment they're doing,
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Speaker 1: launching a service with all of this exclusive content. They
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Speaker 1: did occasionally have a direct to streaming movie like Christmas
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Speaker 1: in July countdown to Christmas in that situation. Mm hm.
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Speaker 1: But we this is new. We're never gonna know the details.
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Speaker 1: We'll never know the numbers. No, No, I agree, we
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Speaker 1: won't ever know the numbers. I mean, because it's like
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Speaker 1: Netflix doesn't really right and Lisa Daily Hamilton switch it around.
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Speaker 1: Lisa Hamilton Daily came from Netflix. She's not gonna share
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Speaker 1: the secrets. No, of course not. It will be interesting
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Speaker 1: to see if this comes to linear programming quicklier than
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Speaker 1: we imagined it might have. I if it does, it
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Speaker 1: it won't be until after the first of the year.
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Speaker 1: I mean for sure. Definitely sometimes in the in this
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Speaker 1: in the season they need it in March, after The
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Speaker 1: Way Home is concluded. Yeah, yeah, exactly. If you have
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Speaker 1: thoughts on the Chicken Sisters and want to share them
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Speaker 1: with us, you can always email us Girls Gone Homemark
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Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. I'm just noodling over this in
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Speaker 1: my head. I actually think the ideal release time for
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Speaker 1: this series on linear programming would be summer twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five because you'll have The Way Home and then you'll
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Speaker 1: have the new season of One Calls the Heart. Then
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Speaker 1: you could air this and if History repeats itself, the
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Speaker 1: new season begins in September, so you're can people up
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Speaker 1: the season ends, then they got to subscribe to get
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Speaker 1: the new season or they have to wait an entire year.
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Speaker 1: Guys Hire, Megan, that's my that's my prediction. We have
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Speaker 1: been talking off Mike about Hallmark Plus. Yeah, I know
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Speaker 1: this isn't in our rundown of things we're gonna talk about.
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Speaker 1: I can pivot. We were talking about their drop dates
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Speaker 1: and how they are a little bit frustrating. It's just
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Speaker 1: Thursday heavy. Everything drops on Thursdays, yes, but so if
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Speaker 1: you don't have Hallmark Plus. What they're doing is they
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Speaker 1: drop every new episode and new movies on Thursdays like everything,
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Speaker 1: And as of right now, that means Chicken Sisters, The
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Speaker 1: Jane Mysteries, and Love on the Danube. New episodes and
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Speaker 1: new movies are dropping on Thursday, so it's three things,
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Speaker 1: but there are six other days of the week. It's
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Speaker 1: hard as a Hallmark movie review podcast to actually consume
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Speaker 1: all that entertainment over the span of a weekend. And
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Speaker 1: here we are, we're recording this on Monday. For me,
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Speaker 1: it would be way easier if they were dropping it earlier.
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Speaker 1: I just wonder if it's like the pivot from this
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Speaker 1: is an audience of people who look forward to new
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Speaker 1: weekend content. They're used to new Friday and Saturday content,
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Speaker 1: and so now we're just extending the weekend a little bit.
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Speaker 1: But I think we need to pivot to the behavior
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Speaker 1: of a streamer, which is like I need something to
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Speaker 1: watch on Monday night when I sit down with my
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Speaker 1: TV to disassociate after a long day at work. I
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Speaker 1: also wish that they would drop multiple episodes instead of
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Speaker 1: just one. That's the behavior of a streamer to binge watch.
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Speaker 1: You know, Apple TV drops, they do persodically wholudaus to
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Speaker 1: They'll drop like one or two at a time. And
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Speaker 1: even Netflix has been toying around with drop being like
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Speaker 1: the first half of a season and the second half
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Speaker 1: of the season. They just did that with Emily in Paris,
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Speaker 1: so that they drag it out. That's also done so
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Speaker 1: that people have to pay for a second month of streaming. Sure,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know there's a rhyme and reason behind
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Speaker 1: all of it, but I'm honestly glad they didn't drop
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Speaker 1: the whole thing. From our reviewing standpoint, I don't even
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Speaker 1: think we could have readma I would literally be like
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Speaker 1: a cartoon in Quicksand with a white platt. All right,
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Speaker 1: so let's talk about episode two. Let's do it. Whatever
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Speaker 1: the title is, it's either I walk the line or
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Speaker 1: we're on the same team, y'all. Here's the synopsis. As
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Speaker 1: Kitchen Clash begins filming, tensions between Frannie's and Mimi's and
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Speaker 1: sisters Amanda and May and their mother Gus are running high. Wow,
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Speaker 1: that's a lot. Tensions are running high with every party involved. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: this the stars Skyler Fisk, Genevieve Angelson, Leah Thompson, and
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Speaker 1: Wendy Malick, who has appeared on All My movie. We
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Speaker 1: did issue a correction the very next day on our
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Speaker 1: episode of Loving the Danube. But if you're only looking
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Speaker 1: listening to Chicken sister's content. We heard you loud and clear.
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Speaker 1: I did make a mistake in last week's news and notes.
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Speaker 1: We are aware that Wendy Malick, of her many many credits,
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Speaker 1: does include several appearances on the Hallmark Channel. Our deepest
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Speaker 1: apologies to Wendy Malick and her resume. You've been really
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Speaker 1: carrying this on your shoulders for a whole week having
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Speaker 1: to you we have when I tell you, people have
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Speaker 1: contacted us via every medium Instagram, DM email, YouTube comment,
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Speaker 1: pleacebook comment. I'm like, they're gonna knock out my front
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Speaker 1: door next. It's like Harry Potter. This isn't a reference.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna understand. But when she's talking to me about
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Speaker 1: the Harry Potter reference because I don't know anything, go ahead. Yes,
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Speaker 1: When his uncle throws away the Hogwarts letter and continues
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Speaker 1: to throw them away, those owls are gonna find their
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Speaker 1: way in, and they're like shooting through the fireplace. That's
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Speaker 1: how I felt about these comments. I actually do appreciate
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Speaker 1: when people reach out with information that we didn't know.
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Speaker 1: I just felt badly about myself for the mistake. It's
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Speaker 1: a fine Malec. We'd love to have you on the show.
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Speaker 1: Our format for these episodes is a little bit different
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Speaker 1: than our movies or movie reviews. So what we're gonna
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Speaker 1: do first is talk news and notes. Last week we
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Speaker 1: ran through a good portion of the cast, but it
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Speaker 1: is a pretty big cast, so don't worry. We didn't
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Speaker 1: forget about the rest of them. We're gonna jump right
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Speaker 1: in with James Cott, who plays Frank Junior. James has
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Speaker 1: thirty one acting credits, and most recently those credits include
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Speaker 1: Virgin River, Christmas on Cherry Lane, and one Calls the Heart.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember him from Christmas on Cherry Lane. I
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Speaker 1: think I do remember him. I think he was like
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Speaker 1: the young dad who was the police officer who died.
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Speaker 1: I could be wrong by James Jake Foy, please can
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Speaker 1: if Hey, we first met Jake when he played Tough
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Speaker 1: McMurray on the one season Wonder Ride. We're glad to
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Speaker 1: have him back on Hallmark. I think he's very good.
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Speaker 1: Other roles in his twenty two credits include Designated Survivor,
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Speaker 1: A Little Daytime Drama, Wilderness, and Allegiance. I'm a little
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Speaker 1: bit shocked that you use the expression one season lounder,
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Speaker 1: because you notice that exact phrase appears later in these
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Speaker 1: very same notes, Cardi Wong plays Jen. Cardi has fifty
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Speaker 1: four acting credits, including his role on Tip Line Mysteries
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Speaker 1: Dial One for Murder. His other Hallmark appearances include Flip
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Speaker 1: That Romance, One Winter Proposal, My Best Friend's Bouquet, and
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Speaker 1: The Crossword Mysteries I Loved Cardi Wong and Tipline Mysteries.
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Speaker 1: He was really good. I like to see a second
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Speaker 1: movie in that franchise. Ekdor Rivera plays Sergio. He's the
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Speaker 1: He's the cook. They call him the cook, the hot chess,
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Speaker 1: not even chef. He is the cook. It's the vibe
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Speaker 1: of Mimei's they got a fry cook. Yes. This is
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Speaker 1: his thirteenth acting credit and his third appearance on Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: having previously appeared in ground Swell The Lacy Shreber Joint.
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Speaker 1: He also had a role in the thriller Startup, which
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Speaker 1: is streaming on Crackle. Look if listeners here don't have
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Speaker 1: Homer and plus they surely don't have Crackle, but crackles free.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, I know your husband watches Crackle a lot.
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Speaker 1: Right to get his old TV toob is the source
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Speaker 1: of old television BT doves. If you like old shows
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Speaker 1: toob is free, lots of ads. Archie Candola plays cameraman Gordo.
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Speaker 1: He's currently appearing in the Hulu series How To Die Alone, which,
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Speaker 1: by the way, just strolling through his credits, maybe want
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Speaker 1: to watch that. That is another series that is dropping
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Speaker 1: episodically on Hulu. His twenty five credits also include Our
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Speaker 1: Big Punjabi Family Upload and the one season Wonder I
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Speaker 1: Wish Everyone would watch No Tomorrow available on Netflix. Y'all.
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Speaker 1: It's like ten or twelve episodes. It's so good. It's
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Speaker 1: sci fi. I'm out, it's barely sci fi. It's a
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Speaker 1: guy who believes the world is ending, but there's that.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't like time travel. He just thinks the world
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Speaker 1: is ending. The world doesn't end. Sameir Salem plays Jay.
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Speaker 1: He has a total of thirty three acting credits, mostly
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Speaker 1: trending toward grittier fair. He did appear in one episode
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Speaker 1: of Hudson and Rex and also has appeared in Yellow Jackets,
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Speaker 1: The Handmaid's Tail, and The Good Doctor. Andrew J. Hampton
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Speaker 1: plays Kenneth's husband, hat Trick. Andrew's first full length feature
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Speaker 1: was in Greece Live, where he had an uncredited role.
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Speaker 1: Since then, He has appeared in Atypical, The Flash So
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Speaker 1: helped Me Todd, Blockbuster, Dream Moms, and Upload for a
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Speaker 1: total of fifteen acting credits. Funny with the Upload crossover
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Speaker 1: here mentioned more than once. Kimmy Gatewood and Annie Meeba
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Speaker 1: return as director and writer, respectively. Let's take a quick
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Speaker 1: break and we'll come right back with more Chicken Sisters.
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Speaker 1: All right, so this is episode two and we are
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Speaker 1: gonna run down kind of the key events in this episode.
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Speaker 1: Do you have like an overall feeling about this episode
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Speaker 1: compared to episode one. I hate to say it, but
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Speaker 1: I didn't like it as much as I liked the pilot.
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Speaker 1: The pilot to me, was snappy, It was filled with
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Speaker 1: one liners. It was real funny. I think maybe now
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Speaker 1: we gotta tell the story right. The pilot was like
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Speaker 1: had such a heavy burden on it to introduce all
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Speaker 1: these characters, introduce the story, and now we gotta like
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Speaker 1: take it back, y'all and slow it down and just
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Speaker 1: tell the story. I agree with you, but I also
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Speaker 1: think did episode two get hollmarkified a little bit? Oh?
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Speaker 1: Because if you listen to our episode one review, I
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Speaker 1: went through a list of things that they said, words,
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Speaker 1: I've never heard on Hallmark before. This episode completely lacked
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Speaker 1: any of that kind of verbiage. I mean, yes, but
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Speaker 1: the behavior. I mean they address miscarriage, which isn't something
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Speaker 1: we use. Yes, yes, we got teens breaking the law.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about how this movie start. This episode has
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Speaker 1: kind of an overarching theme of what it means to
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Speaker 1: be a Franny's girl, particularly from Nancy's perspective, and how
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Speaker 1: Nancy always wanted to be a Franny's girl. A Franny's
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Speaker 1: girl is a good girl and a meanie's girl is
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Speaker 1: from the wrong side of the tracks, basically. And I
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Speaker 1: like that they set this up this way because then
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Speaker 1: you clearly see that there's a lot of factors at
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Speaker 1: play here. It could be like socioeconomic factor wrong side
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Speaker 1: of the tracks, like who's who has more, who has less?
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Speaker 1: I like that they divided that, and there's like some
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Speaker 1: meat to it, and there's almost to me, it felt
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Speaker 1: like a little bit of an acknowledgment of the sacrifices
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Speaker 1: that Nancy had to make in order to be a
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Speaker 1: Franny's Girl, although not called out by name, to me,
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Speaker 1: it felt like there was some jealousy towards maybe the
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Speaker 1: freedom that the quote Mimi's Girl had. Sure, I assume
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Speaker 1: that girl playing cornhole is Gus young Gus just drinking
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Speaker 1: a beer and playing with the guys. And although Nancy
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Speaker 1: in that scene is walking with her husband or future husband,
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Speaker 1: and she has what she wanted, there's also this other
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Speaker 1: side where she's like, look at how fun that is too? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: The grass is always greener, right, Well, I will say that,
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Speaker 1: I you know, I think Nancy is a very unifying
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Speaker 1: force in this story, and I think introducing her as
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Speaker 1: someone who, as opposed to Gus is angry, Gus does
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Speaker 1: not share that. I can understand the Franny's Girl and
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Speaker 1: the Memi's Girl feeling. She's like, oh, those are the
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Speaker 1: Memi's people are bad, and Nancy is more like I
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Speaker 1: wanted to be a Franny's Girl. But I can see
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Speaker 1: the appeal of being a Memi's girl. I'm getting a
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Speaker 1: lot of like the outsiders vibe, you remember, like the
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Speaker 1: socias and the the greasers. That's my favorite grade. Oh
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Speaker 1: really yeah, and especially of the time too, because that,
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Speaker 1: I would guess would be like the timeframe that these
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Speaker 1: teenagers were growing up in was very much like them
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Speaker 1: and us. Sure, I felt bad for Nancy being like
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Speaker 1: the woman behind the man and like just pouring her
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Speaker 1: whole everything into who he was and to become very
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Speaker 1: much a shadow of him. I just and I always
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Speaker 1: try to relate to my own life, and I have
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Speaker 1: a teenage daughter, and there is no way I would
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Speaker 1: want her to live that life. You know, it's interesting
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Speaker 1: because she feels really lost. The narrator says, like, when
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Speaker 1: your entire identities being a wife and a mom, what
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Speaker 1: happens when you're no longer those things? Right? And when
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Speaker 1: you watch this this story starts, we don't have a
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Speaker 1: Frank in the picture. He's passed. Nancy seems like she's
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Speaker 1: running the show, but she feels like, no, I've just
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Speaker 1: taken Frank's place, Like this isn't my place. I'm just
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Speaker 1: filling in a hole that was left behind. And what's
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Speaker 1: also really hard to watch is the rate the way
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Speaker 1: Frank Junior treats her. Agree, And the narrator makes a
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Speaker 1: comment like you could see why she would allow that,
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Speaker 1: But to me, I'm like, I understand that she was heartbroken.
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Speaker 1: Frank Junior was her one and only child. She struggled
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Speaker 1: with fertility and with pregnancy loss, and that's heartbreaking, and
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Speaker 1: I love that they're giving us that storyline. But to me,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, just because you've got this one kid who sucks,
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Speaker 1: She's just like, please love me, Please give back to
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Speaker 1: me what I've given to you, Like, please let me
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Speaker 1: have fulfillment in being your mom. And he's just so unhappy.
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Speaker 1: What is funny is I wonder if did Frank Senior
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Speaker 1: treat her that way too, Like was that behavior modeled
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Speaker 1: for Frank Junior or does Frank Junior just suck in general?
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Speaker 1: He surely doesn't treat his wife that well either. I
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Speaker 1: will say in the book, we do learn some stuff
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Speaker 1: about the Franks. Well, I hope that's coming because there
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Speaker 1: does need to be a little context for those characters.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Sabrina. I love Sabrina. We learn a
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Speaker 1: lot about her, and we have a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a moment where she and May reconnect. And what I
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Speaker 1: love is the Amanda's looking on and she's seeing this moment.
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Speaker 1: She's like, oh, they're friends and Sergio seph and he's like,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's fine, great for me because I'm te
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Speaker 1: Mimi's right. But we very quickly learned that Sabrina is
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Speaker 1: the master of making you believe one thing and acting
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Speaker 1: another way, like she's a real sneaky snake. She's gonna
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Speaker 1: get the shot at whatever the cost, and so she's
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Speaker 1: letting May believe like things are all good while telling
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Speaker 1: Amanda like, oh no, we are not good friends, we've
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Speaker 1: worked together, and trying to worm her way in with Amanda.
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Speaker 1: And then she's kind of her cameraman filming this conversation
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Speaker 1: she has, yeah, and she gets Amanda to accidentally spill
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Speaker 1: about donkeys, which to me, I'm like, that's Hooters right
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Speaker 1: for sure, because Sabrina is like the butt restaurant because
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Speaker 1: they couldn't make it the boobs restaurant. What is significant
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Speaker 1: we learn about Sabrina? Obviously May knows what's up. May
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Speaker 1: tells Amanda at the end she will make you believe
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Speaker 1: that she's your friend, and you see it on Amanda's face.
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Speaker 1: She's like, oh shit, I've already fallen for it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you see it on Amanda's face, But the narrator says
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Speaker 1: it's too late for Amanda. My question is do you
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Speaker 1: think Amanda believes May in that moment, Like is she
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Speaker 1: inclined to believe or is she just like May doesn't
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Speaker 1: want good things for me. I think Amanda in May's
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Speaker 1: relationship is real complicated, and it's not made better by
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Speaker 1: the fact that May comes in and she's like, got
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Speaker 1: her I've been on TV energy and is trying to
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Speaker 1: tell everyone. I actually think it's really smart from an
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Speaker 1: outsider's perspective. She's like, no, y'all need media training. You
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Speaker 1: need to know that Sabrina will do what she's gonna
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Speaker 1: do to get the shot. But Amanda doesn't want to
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Speaker 1: listen to her, and it also creates all this conflict.
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Speaker 1: You see Gus and Nancy that's won't even face She's
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Speaker 1: got her back to the entire group when they're having
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Speaker 1: their media training moment. So like, why does Gus have
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Speaker 1: beef with Nancy? Well, they haven't given it to us yet,
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Speaker 1: but you know because of the book, in the book
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Speaker 1: reasoning Why, But it's less Nancy and more like the
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Speaker 1: legacy of Franny's and the Franny's versus Mimi's of it all.
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Speaker 1: I am curious to see how they handle it in
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Speaker 1: the show and see if it's the same. But there's
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Speaker 1: just a long history of Gus feels like she hasn't
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Speaker 1: gotten what she's deserved. Got it? Got it? I mean
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Speaker 1: in the story, as we're told, right, it's that Mimi's
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Speaker 1: husband cheated with Franny, right, and so there's this long
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Speaker 1: standing beat. But there's got any more there. There's gotta
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Speaker 1: be more there there from my small town. Maybe Gus
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Speaker 1: was interested in Frank at some point, who knows. Whatever,
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Speaker 1: that's what it was. Okay, let's talk about Kenneth. Yes,
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Speaker 1: Jake Foy. I'm so glad to see Jake Foy back
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Speaker 1: on Hallmark. By the way, He's very likable, super likable.
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Speaker 1: He was one of my favorite parts about Ride. Even
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Speaker 1: though that show was not that great. You liked it
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Speaker 1: a lot less than I did. I found it washable
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Speaker 1: but forgettable. But I'm real happy to have Jake Foyd back.
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Speaker 1: He plays and I like his story, like he the
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Speaker 1: throwback is like he and May both were like got
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Speaker 1: to get the heck out of town, and he came
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Speaker 1: back because his mom was sick and settled, and he
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Speaker 1: is in this position where he's like I can see
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Speaker 1: the value in like giving back and building up and
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Speaker 1: being the change in this town, Like look at all
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Speaker 1: the things that I've done here, look at the people here.
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Speaker 1: And she's still very like I can't believe you're here, right,
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Speaker 1: I don't believe like you're friends with my mom. Mm
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Speaker 1: And he's like, well, yeah, she's been pretty great to me. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think, well May needs a person in her life.
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Speaker 1: So I think it's a good character introduction. I like
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Speaker 1: that he is her friend, but he's also like gonna
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Speaker 1: call her on her bullshit. Yeah, yeah, me too. Like that.
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Speaker 1: She says something about like everybody in this town sucks,
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Speaker 1: like there's nothing good to ever come out of this town.
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Speaker 1: And he's like that, oh, like that's when he leaves.
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Speaker 1: He bails. He's like, I'm not stupid restaurant overnight. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like I had a coffee shop and an inter run
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Speaker 1: in this small town. I don't have time for your bullshit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, no, that's good. And then to your point
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Speaker 1: about the hallmarkification of this episode, she does get drunk
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Speaker 1: and just slap paint over the chicken sign. Okay, fine,
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just being difficult. I
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Speaker 1: just think they turned the homemarkified dial a little maybe
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Speaker 1: a little bit mm hm. Lots of questions about the
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Speaker 1: character of Jen, played by Cardi Wong. Yeah, so I
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Speaker 1: was wrong. I suspected last week that he was Kenneth's
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Speaker 1: husband Patrick. That is incorrect. That's played by the actor
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Speaker 1: Andrew J. Hampton. I mentioned that there's some information that
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Speaker 1: we have about Gusts from the book that I don't
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Speaker 1: know if that'll be introduced here. We think he's potentially
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Speaker 1: her therapist, some sort of in that role somehow, And
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Speaker 1: I think they're still trying to like, maybe they're having
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Speaker 1: an affair, but they're not having an affair. They're trying
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Speaker 1: to mislead sure viewers. Yeah, that's something salacious is happening.
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Speaker 1: I agree with you definitely. Post first episode, I was like,
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Speaker 1: what's going on between these two? They were fooling around
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. But now, yeah, I see
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Speaker 1: that's not the case. Maybe if you're just watching this
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Speaker 1: as a casual viewer and not trying to really figure
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Speaker 1: out like who everybody is and all the players in
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Speaker 1: the game, then you don't question like I also think
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Speaker 1: this is one of the reasons I have really mixed
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Speaker 1: feelings about reading the book before I see a movie
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Speaker 1: or TV adaptation of it. Typically, I'm like, you got
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Speaker 1: to read the book first, But then I spend the
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Speaker 1: entire time going wait did that happen? The book? Wait
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Speaker 1: did that happen? And my memory for things that I
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Speaker 1: read is like a goldfish, so I don't remember things
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Speaker 1: very long. So sometimes I prefer not to have read
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Speaker 1: the book, and I can't, but I can't help myself.
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Speaker 1: I know things about the book, so I'm trying to compare.
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Speaker 1: One thing we didn't talk about is in the book,
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Speaker 1: And maybe this will be the last time I say that.
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Speaker 1: Today May is married with two children. Are married. I
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Speaker 1: think the reason that they've made them engage is because
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Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense. In the book, her husband doesn't
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Speaker 1: know her mom, Like maybe they met at her wedding,
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Speaker 1: but he's never been to her hometown. It's completely shocked
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Speaker 1: by this state of things, like she has kept all
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Speaker 1: of this from him, And I think that's harder to
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Speaker 1: believe when you're married with two children than just engaged.
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Speaker 1: This guy doesn't know the ins and outs of your family.
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Speaker 1: In the book, does May return home with the husband
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Speaker 1: and the two kids? No, she returns home with the children. Oh. Interesting,
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Speaker 1: it's the same situation. Like she gets fired and he's like, cool,
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Speaker 1: now we can take time off and travel the world
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Speaker 1: and she's like, peace, I'm going home to be on
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Speaker 1: another show, and she takes the children. Got it. Finally
24:45
Speaker 1: we have little Lindsay Sabrina's daughter, yes, who is a
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Speaker 1: challenging teenager, aren't they all? You know, it's funny. She's
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Speaker 1: just so over small town Marynac and poor Frankie's just
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Speaker 1: like trying to be a good friend and and she's like,
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Speaker 1: we got fun stuff here. But I love when Frankie
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Speaker 1: was like kind of over her. When Lindsay's like, do
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Speaker 1: y'all have a bodega? And she's like, we got a
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Speaker 1: stop and shop? And she goes, what's that? She's like,
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Speaker 1: it's a bodega. I mean they didn't fall off the
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Speaker 1: turnip truck. Like a stop and shop sounds like any
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Speaker 1: gas station market that you would go to. Now seriously,
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Speaker 1: I mean from New York City. I don't know where
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Speaker 1: I pulled back the brge on, but it's like the
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Speaker 1: same kind of thing, and the parallel is kind of
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Speaker 1: similar if you think about it. We have at the beginning,
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Speaker 1: you know, Nancy and Gus from two different sides, right,
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Speaker 1: and now we have Lindsay and Frankie. They are from
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Speaker 1: two different worlds as well. Y, yes, great, but I
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Speaker 1: mean currently teenagers are pretty with it. She's on TikTok, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and she's seen the world outside of her little New
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Speaker 1: York window, and it's pretty funny to think, like, I mean,
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Speaker 1: obviously we live here in southern California, Like when I
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Speaker 1: see teenagers like, like I said, like, they're pretty with
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Speaker 1: it here. We have this teenager in Marynac who doesn't
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Speaker 1: seem very worldly. I don't think that's not unusual. It
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Speaker 1: is to me just because of where I'm from, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, when we're going to middle school.
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Speaker 1: My best friend moved to Sylum Springs, Arkansas our freshman
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Speaker 1: year of high school, and she was like, there's nothing
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Speaker 1: to do here. People drink like that's all they do,
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Speaker 1: Like they go to the football game and then they
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Speaker 1: go get drunks too. Yes, okay, Well, then if we're
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Speaker 1: applying that scenario to this, like Frankie seemed like she
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Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, we but never like well,
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying yeah, but Frankie seems like she's like
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Speaker 1: I got big plans, like I'm going to college. Oh well,
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Speaker 1: I will say in regards to like when she's like,
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Speaker 1: I got big plans. I'm gonna go to New York
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Speaker 1: and Broadway and whatever. I thought. Lindsay was a real bitch. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: she was like, oh, you're not getting in. That was
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Speaker 1: so me. Yes, shut up, Lindsay, what are you doing?
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Speaker 1: What are you doing? Lindsay looking for the next rave.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk some clukworthy moments. My favorite scene is when
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Speaker 1: and we are already mentioned it, but when Amanda mistakenly
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Speaker 1: tells Sabrina that May worked at Donkey's. Sabrina's reaction was incredible.
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Speaker 1: I thought, I mean, I know, we're not supposed to
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Speaker 1: like Sabrina, but it was so funny to me. She
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Speaker 1: was like just spouts off about like deep fried kso
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Speaker 1: to tourists, it was it was good. I know we're
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Speaker 1: not supposed to like Sabrina as a person, but as
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Speaker 1: a character, I mean, she is bringing drama, so she's
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Speaker 1: super enjoyable to watch. Yeah, I agree. One thing I
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Speaker 1: loved was the montage of everyone getting ready. I loved
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Speaker 1: you know, they've got like May with like full contour
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Speaker 1: and the works that was. That was really executed really well.
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Speaker 1: I thought Gus splashes hose water on her face and
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Speaker 1: Sabrina tells Amanda, She's like, just blend it. Just blend
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Speaker 1: it all the way off. You got a so tarry over.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of Sabrina, when Lindsay's complaining to her, she's like,
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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to hang out with this random teen. She goes, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and to her, you're also a random teen. As much
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Speaker 1: as Sabrina is like not about small town Maranac and
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Speaker 1: is like a New York elite, she's also like get
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Speaker 1: over yourself. Totally loved it. Here's a real sweet moment.
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Speaker 1: I loved when Gordo shares the footage with Nancy because
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Speaker 1: Nancy's like, I can't do this. This is not for me. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like no, no, no, no no, And he shows the scene
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Speaker 1: showing her how sincere and warm. She comes off on
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Speaker 1: camera and Nancy's talking about Amanda being the daughter she
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Speaker 1: never had and we know the backstory there. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was a really touching moment because we don't know
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Speaker 1: Gordo up to that point. I like him too. Yeah,
28:55
Speaker 1: he's like, the camera loves you. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you said that, but that was the sentiment there, Yes,
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Speaker 1: did you love you? Can put your boots in the oven.
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Speaker 1: That don't make them biscuits. Did that just go way
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Speaker 1: over my head? The narrator said it at one time.
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Speaker 1: I don't even remember, and I don't remember which character said,
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Speaker 1: don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
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Speaker 1: Lots of small town Southern colloquialism. Hey have a question
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Speaker 1: for you. I had read some criticism about the accent
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Speaker 1: Wendy Malick is using. Yeah, I would be the wrong
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Speaker 1: person to ask a Southern accent. To me, it sounds great.
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Speaker 1: What do I know from California New York City? I'm
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Speaker 1: a barbeker. I don't know. Yeah, the stuff's made in
29:38
Speaker 1: New York City. It works well. It works well for me.
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Speaker 1: Me too, it works well for me. Do you have
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Speaker 1: a feathered friend of the week? To me, it's Gordo,
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Speaker 1: simply because he was the biggest surprise in this episode,
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Speaker 1: given that this episode was largely about Nancy and how
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Speaker 1: she sees herself, allowing him to be the vehicle to
29:59
Speaker 1: allow her to make changed the way she sees herself. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: as like a fully formed human and not just the
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Speaker 1: replacement for the whole left behind for her husband. I
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Speaker 1: like a lot. Yeah, I oh, it's very thoughtful. Thanks,
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Speaker 1: who's your feathered friend of the week? I like I said,
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Speaker 1: I love the character of Sabrina. I think Rukiya Bernard
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Speaker 1: plays her perfectly. Every time she's on screen. I love
30:24
Speaker 1: to watch her mouth. For some reason, I'm so drawn
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Speaker 1: into like watching her mouth. She just has a great
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Speaker 1: smile too. But I don't know what it is. It's
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Speaker 1: it's super weird. It's super weird that I'm watching that closely.
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Speaker 1: But I loved how like she navigated the whole replacing
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Speaker 1: Frank Junior in those scenes because he was an idiot,
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Speaker 1: like she was trying to convince Nancy. And then I
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Speaker 1: just think Sabrina is producing the shit out of the show, right,
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Speaker 1: and it's fun to watch. Yeah, it's real believable that
30:55
Speaker 1: they're making the show. We gotta get the shot. Nobody
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Speaker 1: cares about you and your dumb taps, right. I did
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Speaker 1: feel a little bit bad for Frank Junior. He's like garbagehusband.
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Speaker 1: He is a garbage husband, he's a garbage son. But
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Speaker 1: Nancy had been like, just be yourself. So he's like,
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Speaker 1: this is who I am, this is what I contribute,
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Speaker 1: and she was like no. But I actually felt bad
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Speaker 1: for Nancy in that scene because she's like so proud
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Speaker 1: of this boy for being passionate about me whatever, and
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Speaker 1: then yeah, I don't like Frank Junior. Hey, thanks for
31:30
Speaker 1: listening to this episode of Girls Gone Homework as a reminder.
31:35
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31:38
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